Before Match.com, nightclubs and happy hours, singles congregated at community dance halls for a shot at catching Cupid’s arrow. Dance halls were particularly popular in western states — Texas had the most — in the early 20th century, but one of the most spectacular specimens remains right here at Glen Echo Park.

It’s a truth universally acknowledged: The holidays can be tough. Growing up in Vienna, Austria, Marion Glatz remembered, “We talked about, in our family at the time, how difficult it might be to start this New Year, and all the problems we had to overcome—and then the music came, and we all looked at each other, and we were dancing around the dini View more

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